Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South

Name: Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South
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ISBN: 9781433111907

ISBN-10: 143311190X

ISBN-13: 9781433111907

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shirley R. Steinberg, Bettina L. Love

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Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality, and privilege. The thriving atmosphere of Atlanta, Georgia serves as the background against which these youth consume Hip Hop, and the book examines how the city's socially conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern-flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery. Intertwined within the girls' exploration of Hip Hop and coming of age in…

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List price: $52.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 10/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 137
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.86" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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Repaying My Debt Through Context



Hip Hop, Context, and Black Girlhood



The New South: Gone with the Beat



Starting with My Limitations: Positionality, Power, and Reflexivity



Where Are the White Girls?



Body Image Relationships, Desirability, and Ass



The Beat of Hegemony



Black Girls Resisting When No One Is Listening


Regrets


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Index